If you want to know about government healthcare, you don't have to look to Great Britain or Canada. Just look at our own at-risk communities where 60 million Americans are currently on a single-payer government system called Medicaid. The result: 40 percent of physicians won't accept Medicaid patients. 65 percent of physicians say their reimbursements don't cover their costs of treatment. When admitted to a hospital, those on Medicaid are far less-likely to survive than those on private care. According to one study, Medicaid patients are 50 percent more likely to die after heart bypass surgery than those with private insurance. States put final decisions in the hands of state bureaucrats, not in the hands of doctors. In the face of overwhelming evidence that government healthcare means rationing or substandard care, shouldn't we want less of it, not more?
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